EJ101

I missed out on his 240Z when it was for sale last year. The 260Z is his wife's car and to console me he said it would be for sale soon, but would be asking $75K. I told him a the time it was out of my price range, now it definitely is.

fair enough!

any idea why I wouldn't have permission to see the pic?

he's sticking with Flamingo. sent me the original sales docket only says Red 905 this Z has long since gone to heaven.

thanks for the reply it's to settle and argument. no, he says it was a 1970.

i didn't get any responses in the Bodywork section, thought i'd try here in OZ was 905 Red called Flamingo or MonteCarlo as it is in the U.S? a mate of mine had a series 1 many years ago and he's insistent it was Flamingo and he sent me this

I believe it is getting more and more difficult and expensive to keep the old cars on the road in Japan. So for the average person in Japan can't afford it. don't know if the have any similar schemes to what we have here, club/historic rego?

A friend and I were recently reminiscing about the old days and he said for him its only the series 1 240Z like the one he had many years ago, if he was in a position to get one. Then we talked colours and he said. "It'd have to Flamingo Red like my old one" I said there was no such colour and his would have been 905 Monte Carlo red. Today he sent me this which clearly says 905 Flamingo red as he is insistent that is/was the colour. it's hard to say if it is the same as MonteCarlo red, but i'd say it isn't. So, was 905 red in Australia for the Z Monte Carlo or Flamingo? I

I recently missed out on a rust free Z for $55k. I doubt an opportunity like that will present itself again

referring to "Fairlady Roadster to 280ZX-The Z-Car Story" by Brian Long, The S130 series Fairlady range boasted no fewer than 10 models. 2 litre Z-L, Z-T & Z in both 2 seater and 2+2 and 2.8 litre 280Z-L & 280Z-T

no idea of how many 2 seaters are in Aus.

My former car up for sale again. Sportclassic sold to someone in Qld a few years ago from what I was told. Now back at Sportclassic. If it was converted back to a road car I'd buy it. http://www.my105.com/22478

even a warmed up N/A L28 goes well. When I rebuilt the L28 in mine 65mm throttle body, coil packs,EMS ECU, Crow Cam, port and polish, extractors and 2.5" system produced 185kw (250bhp), super reliable, never missed a beat, daily driver for 5 years at 16 litres/100km....Lol

the fact it reads Nissan Motor Co (Australia) and as others have said the 2 seater was never imported here. regardless, if the car is or has been registered here, shouldn't have a problem for a 40 year old car. mine din't have any compliance plates

cursing i never knew about this. Love the 2 seater. i had one years ago! Great car. compliance plate is obviously from a local car

Nice BMW powered 240Z couple of minutes in

problem is there are many people that have some kind of business or another but have no business sense or skill and really shouldn't be in business. As for cheap arse car owners. Unfortunately, most of us don't have unlimited funds to just buy everything and anything we need, so you try and find the cheapest or alternative way to do things. Often that involves asking questions and wasting peoples time..........that's life. But I do have a fond memory of Stewart Wilkins back when he had SSS at Girraween. If you've ever met him, he is a man of few words, not the chatty type. I'd only go there on Saturday mornings but that's when everyone else would go and Stewart would be bombarded by "I wanna put a blahh blahh blahh into my blahh blahh blahh and get 600 hp" I'd be listening to Stewart's responses, which were only ever a few words, as he stood there with his arms folded. Then i'd finally get to the front and the look on his face would be "You better not waste my farking time". Luckily, I only ever went there when I actually needed something.

My only concern would be the locking. How does the magnetic lock work or does it. That's why i'd want to see one in the flesh. I'd get nervous buying stuff like this on ebay.

i agree that rarity makes things special, but give me a quality reproduction any day. The old wheels are so rare, so expensive, usually damaged and probably not road legal i.e magnesium competition wheels. Most of us even if we could find a set would not be able to afford them. Enkei make some classic 70's 80's style wheels that have the benefit of improved materials, design and manufacturing

I had a LJ Torana XU-1which I sold to a bloke back in the early 90's.He found me on facebook recently and has still got the car. The car had the original 13x6 Sprintmaster wheels. Back in 1973 the XU-1 race cars ran 13x8 & 13x9 magnesium sprintmasters. I always wanted a set but they were extremely rare as they were made in small numbers for racing only. This bloke also wanted them and so he went about getting some 13x9 made in Thailand. He hasn't said how much they cost or how many he is getting made, but he has a pair. He didn't get the 13x8 made. They are made by a proper wheel manufacturer in Thailand and are alloy, not magnesium. He managed to get an original wheel which was 3D scanned and modelled. So it is possible. I'm just surprised that with the popularity and value of Zeds that a wheel manufacturer such as Enkei hasn't managed to put the Kobe seiko style wheel in their classic lineup.

very nice.

i'm in the camp that wants a car that's pretty much done or 90% there. I don't want a full resto job because I know how long it will take and know it will be a money pit and that i'll probably never get it done. I don't have the skill or patience to tackle rust repairs, but mechanical stuff like suspension and brakes I'll have a go at and things like interior, some electrical etc etc. Engine builds and gearbox and diffs I'd leave to the experts. My friends are always at me........"just get one" not realising that I'd need $50-60k. (there are 2 longtermers on carsales that i'd go for if I had the available funds) Most people think $20k will get you a pretty good car. Having pretty much modified every car I've ever owned, some a bit, some a lot, I know tackling a full resto for me is just romantic fantasy!

we are talking about Italy here not Australia. Love for cycling in European countries is strong especially Italy and France. This was just an unfortunate accident. I doubt there was any intent.

being no closer to owning a Z, friends take pity on me and buy me toy substitutes. That said I went and had a look at the 260Z Rally car that Carlos at Sportsclassic is selling. Overall it's not too bad. Has me umming and ahhhring! A friend I haven't seen in years sent me this the other day. Have to say the Hot wheels models look more like an actual Z than the Matchbox 280ZX 2 seater I got

generally tooling by the end of a car's build cycle is ready to be scrapped to make way for new model tooling (stamps, dies etc). It would be nice to think Nissan have kept Z tooling somewhere for almost 50 years, but I doubt it. I remember reading somewhere when the Mitsubishi plant closed in SA, someone found some old Valiant tooling sitting out in a field with other junk. How they knew what it was and what it was for always intrigued me.